"You keep insisting there's no danger. I keep assuring you there is. Would you mind telling me...""It is our way of life, Captain.""That's the first thing that would be lost! Excuse me, gentlemen. I'm a soldier, not a diplomat. I can only tell you the truth."

While in command of the USS Enterprise-A following the arrest of James T. Kirk and Leonard McCoy on suspicion of assassinating Klingon ChancellorGorkon, Spock ordered the crew to "piece together what happened here tonight." When Pavel Chekov asked what would happen if the crew could not properly reconstruct those events, Spock replied, "Then Mr. Chekov, it resides in the hands of the diplomats." Ironically, it was Spock's own diplomatic efforts that led to the meeting of Kirk and Gorkon in the first place. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)